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SYLVAN GHOSTS: ABANDONED ON THE 160

In 2008 I began photographing these wrecked cars from the 1940s and ’50s after I discovered them junked and abandoned deep in the woods on 160 acres of undeveloped land in Western Massachusetts. In 2017 I returned again to the woods and photographed their continuing state of rust and decay. The surrounding foliage had been tamped down significantly, but the cars showed a slow but continued demise.